Sympathy poems

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The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

© Thomas Hood

I
'Twas in that mellow season of the year
When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves
Till they be gold,—and with a broader sphere

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Devotion

© Thomas Campion

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!
Though thou be black as night,
And she made all of light,
Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!

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Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue I

© John Kenyon

  Yet the heart vents still more indignant blame,
  Where Lawgivers their sullen codes proclaim,
  And idly would constrain the creed within,
  As if Belief were Crime, and Tolerance—Sin.

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A Dream Of Sappho

© Richard Monckton Milnes

``Stranger! the voice that trembles in your ear,
You would have placed, had you been fancy--free,
First in the chorus of the happiest sphere,
The home of deified mortality:

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Ginevra

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

THE DIRGE.
Old winter was gone
In his weakness back to the mountains hoar,
And the spring came down
From the planet that hovers upon the shore

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The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius - Book II.

© James Beattie

I.
Of chance or change O let not man complain,
Else shall he never never cease to wail:
For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain

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Saul And David

© Richard Monckton Milnes

``An evil spirit lieth on our King!''
So went the wailful tale up Israel,
From Gilgal unto Gibeah; town and camp
Caught the sad fame that spread like pestilence,

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The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto V.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

IV Venus Victrix
  Fatal in force, yet gentle in will,
  Defeats, from her, are tender pacts,
  For, like the kindly lodestone, still
  She's drawn herself by what she attracts.

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Open Speech

© John Le Gay Brereton

Good friend of mine, you feel with me—
Your blood grows hot by sympathy
With something that I say or do;
Then speak—I want a word from you.

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Fragments Of An Unfinished Drama

© Percy Bysshe Shelley


ANOTHER SCENE
Indian Youth and Lady.

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Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto II.

© Matthew Prior

Richard, quoth Matt, these words of thine
Speak something sly and something fine;
But I shall e'en resume my theme,
However thou may'st praise or blame.

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The Bard

© William Gilmore Simms

Where dwells the spirit of the Bard-what sky

Persuades his daring wing,-

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The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant

© William Cowper

An Oyster, cast upon the shore,

Was heard, though never heard before,

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An Athenian Reverie

© Archibald Lampman

How the returning days, one after one,

Came ever in their rhythmic round, unchanged,

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Monody On The Death Of Dr. Warton

© William Lisle Bowles

Oh! I should ill thy generous cares requite

  Thou who didst first inspire my timid Muse,

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Meditation On A Cold, Dark, And Rainy Night

© George Moses Horton



Sweet on the house top falls the gentle shower,

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Tale XXI

© George Crabbe

rise;
Not there the wise alone their entrance find,
Imparting useful light to mortals blind;
But, blind themselves, these erring guides hold out
Alluring lights to lead us far about;
Screen'd by such means, here Scandal whets her

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Life Is A Dream - Act I

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

THIS TRANSLATION
INTO ENGLISH IMITATIVE VERSE
OF
CALDERON'S MOST FAMOUS DRAMA,

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Belshazzar. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama :--
Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
Nitocris, the Queen-Mother.
Courtiers, Astrologers, Parasites.
Daniel, the Jewish Prophet.
Captive Jews, &c. &c.